Family CTC-7

[Dave A]

Dave, if you thought the radiators were great...you have to see the outside. The pic is from the mid-30's. It looked the same when I was a kid but the trees were bigger. My dad and his brother would flood the front yard below the berm for a skating rink in the winter.

Early on my grandfather had to use wires to the car battery to run a battery set to hear a boxing match. He forgot to disconnect it and backed out of the garage the next morning. Disaster followed.

As grandma got older she became a bedroom queen with help from Mrs. Hill her housekeeper. Well she needed a color set in her upstairs bedroom and got another ordinary RCA roundie from the mid-60's. I forget the model but I would visit her up there to watch Dark Shadows after school. Her in bed chain-smoking her Kents and me on a chair by her side. And sharp as a tack.

A famous mid-west architect did the house in 1926. Jess Barloga is renowned for out-of-place houses. It's Rockford, IL...not the coast of Spain. The CTC's were very comfortable in this house.